Second time’s the attraction! Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck celebrated their marriage — once more — with assist from family and friends.
Forward of their Saturday, August 20 vows, Affleck, 50, and Lopez, 53, deliberate an enormous affair on the Good Will Looking star’s Riceboro, Georgia, property. The weekend bought off to a rocky begin with Affleck’s mother, Christopher Anne Boldt, being taken to a Savannah-area hospital through ambulance on Friday, August 19, per the Each day Mail. She was discharged later that day and escorted house by each her son and daughter-in-law.
Nevertheless, the medical concern was solely a short hiccup within the occasion plans. Celebrities equivalent to Matt Damon, Kevin Smith and extra had been noticed touchdown on the airport in Savannah, Georgia, forward of the occasion.
The Hustlers actress and the Oscar winner tied the knot in Las Vegas final month after getting engaged in April for the second time. The New York Metropolis native confirmed the milestone in a July 17 concern of her “On the JLo” e-newsletter.
“We did it. Love is gorgeous. Love is type. And it seems love is affected person. Twenty years affected person,” the Selena star wrote on the time, hours after Us Weekly confirmed that she and the Argo director had made it official. “[The wedding was] precisely what we wished. Final night time we flew to Vegas, stood in line for a license with 4 different {couples}, all making the identical journey to the marriage capital of the world.”
Shortly after the low-key ceremony, an insider advised Us that the duo deliberate to have a bigger celebration afterward with a much bigger group of their family and friends. Their option to elope, the supply famous, was a very long time coming.
“Jen and Ben have talked about eloping for months now and it felt proper for them,” the insider advised Us. “[They] have each already had large weddings beforehand, so the pageantry isn’t as essential to them because it as soon as was.”
Days after their Sin Metropolis nuptials, the pair jetted off to Paris for a honeymoon, a part of which they loved with their youngsters. Lopez shares twins Max and Emme, 14, with ex-husband Marc Anthony. Affleck, for his half, shares daughters Violet, 16, and Seraphina, 13, and son Samuel, 10, with ex-wife Jennifer Garner.
The “Get Proper” songstress and the Justice League star beforehand dated from 2002 to 2004 after connecting on the set of their film Gigli. The pair had been set to wed in September 2003, however they referred to as off the ceremony as a consequence of “extreme media consideration” and broke up 4 months later.
The twosome reconnected in 2021 following Lopez’s break up from ex-fiancé Alex Rodriguez. The Shades of Blue alum and the Good Will Looking screenwriter made their romance Instagram official in July 2021, making their crimson carpet debut collectively two months later on the Venice Worldwide Movie Pageant.
“Ben and Jen [felt] so shut to one another in a short time,” a supply completely advised Us in Might 2021. “The previous flame is totally rekindled. They picked up the place they left off when it comes to affection for one another. … They each respect and belief one another.”
